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House in Kitano / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000

This project is a residential design in the Kitano area, Kobe. The city of Kobe is defined by its hilly terrain, shaped by the uplift of the Rokko mountain range, resulting in a cityscape of slopes and inclines. Within this topography, the gaze from the mountains toward the sea has long been a characteristic feature of the urban environment, passed down through generations.

Cloud Terrace / CLOUD ARCHITECTS

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The architect's office and private residence, located in a suburban residential area of Kobe. The site faces two roads—one to the south and one to the north. The southern side faces a 26-meter-wide arterial road lined with large commercial facilities. The northern side, however, faces a 6-meter-wide residential street in a quiet neighborhood. Furthermore, while the southern half of the site is flat, the northern half is a sloped area with a gradient of approximately 30 degrees, resulting in a height difference of about 5.5 meters between the north and south.

TOTTEI Green Hill / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Valeria Silva — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Kobe is a city where the sea and mountains are close together, with its urban area spreading across the slopes at the base of the mountains. In the Sannomiya area, the current city center, the most important urban axis connecting the sea to the mountains is Flower Road, running north-south from Shin-Kobe Station to the port. The Second Pier, the site of this project, is located at its tip. Kobe Port prospered as a mooring facility for conventional cargo ships, but it has now completed its urban role.

House in Inagawa-cho / FujiwaraMuro Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The site is in a residential area that has been rezoned. The client's requests included the following:

The Rest Space at the Top of Mt.Rokko / ofa

Andreas Luco — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

As part of improving the value and environment of Mt. Rokko, one of the attractions of the city of Kobe, there is a plan for a public toilet/rest space and a garden newly built in the area at the top of Mt. Rokko. A thin wooden roof that folds in response to the mountains floats lightly on a bench that looks like a large piece of furniture. With the colors of trees and finishes that harmonize with the nature of the national park, it blends in with the environment of Mt. Rokko and creates a relaxing landscape.

ThinkStay Mt. Cabins / Osamu Morishita Architect & Associates

Hana Abdel — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

We've created a third place to have a workplace on a small hill in front of Rokko Cable Sanjo Station, at an altitude of 760 meters. Mt.Rokkō is the name of a range of mountains in southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Mt.Rokkō is a symbol of Kobe as well as Osaka.

Kobe Hyogo House / YYA / Yusuke Yoshino Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The site of this project is located in the corner of a new town, Seishin-Chuo in Kobe City, where the client spent his childhood and college years. Though a residential area, the surroundings still retain its rural countryside landscape. Although all of the houses are adjacent to each other, as an exception, on the north side of the site we can find a park. The site is also not as dense as in the city, and the environment is relatively spacious, as the units are arranged in units of about 200m2 in area.

House in Okamoto / FujiwaraMuro Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This project is a house for a couple and their two children built on a long, narrow triangular site in a residential area on a sloping hillside. It is a common design practice on small sites to install walls as close to the site boundary as possible.

Kobe Port Museum / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Hana Abdel — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

A Building on Land and Sea - Kobe Port Museum is a multi-purpose cultural facility consisting mainly of an aquarium, a food hall, and a bridal desk. Kobe has a characteristic topography enclosed between the Seto Inland Sea and Mount Rokko. The jetty area is a planning area where the remains of the Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake are preserved today, to pass down to the people the situation that occurred at that time. The concept was for a building at this site that would pass on the history of the land where many crustal movements have been repeated, and that exist together with eternal time.

a boat / Shu Yamamoto + Yoshinori Kobayashi

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000

A holiday house with a garage designed in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. As the owner has plans to build a house nearby, this is a place for displaying his cars and enjoying his leisure time. With the owner’s request for sufficient parking space, we decided to use the whole site as a building with enough room for the cars to turn around easily.

House Along Cul de Sac / T2P Architects Office

Andreas Luco — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The site is a residential area in Kobe, Japan with a view of Kobe Bay below. The site is on a slope that descends to the south and the north side of the lot faces a circular plaza in a cul-de-sac on a subdivision development road.

LIM・loji Hair Salon / Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:00:00 +0000

This is a renovation project of the flagship store of LIM, a hair salon in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. Our client explained to us that the name "LIM" is derived from "Less Is More," a famous quote by the modernist maestro Mies van der Rohe.

House in Goshikiyama / Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Hana Abdel — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:00:00 +0000

This house is built on a very small site along the railroad tracks. To plan a house for five family members in this place, it seemed necessary not to physically close in this place but to create the connection with the city, also to fold each space of living on a small footprint in a three-dimensional way and in a compact manner.

House for Living in the Park / Sho Date + Shuhei Goto

Hana Abdel — Fri, 07 May 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Bringing the Greenery into the House through the Gaps and Openings.

House for someone / Peak Studio

Andreas Luco — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The owner is a landowner in Rokko and he hoped to live with his neighbors in the community. So we planned a detached rental house.

Our House / Peak Studio

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

The client, Mr. H's family decided to rethink their lifestyle and return to their hometown to rebuild their life. Ways of working and living are becoming more diversified, and society is beginning to accept them. But while diverse values and lifestyles are being recognized, I wonder how well the current state of housing production is addressing the challenge of realizing these individual well-being goals.

House of Many Arches / 24d-studio (Fumio Hirakawa + Marina Topounova)

Hana Abdel — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:00:00 +0000

House of Many Arches is a gut renovation of a 35-year-old house in Kobe, Japan. Originally built with a function of four rentable apartment units and small office, the house went through a series of renovations after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, transforming into a work-live space.

House in Tarumi / Yo Irie Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 08 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This site is a newly developed residential area, a high ground overlooking the sea near the city of Kobe, Japan. The development took place in recent years, and small-scale individual houses are lined up all around the neighborhood. The house-building industry has developed significantly, and excellent technologies used in efficient insulation products, equipment with high performance coefficients, high-strength engineered wood, energy saving lighting equipment, etc. have improved the performance of houses, but rather than simply relying on such individual functions, we would like to think about structures that work better when they integrate such technologies, so the whole house can function better and smarter.